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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1919
Page
6
A jumble of classified requests and notices seeking housing, furniture, tools, and services. Items include wanted rooms, furnished houses, secondhand furniture, stoves, guns, safe desks, bicycles, and cash for old teeth, with various contact hints and partial addresses.
A collage of property and vehicle sale notes from a Wisconsin area paper lists farms in Michigan and Wisconsin, with prices and terms. Items include hardwood land and timber tracts, several farms in Wisconsin with credit terms, and numerous motor vehicles for sale with prices and contact notes.
A chaotic town classifieds page lists multiple for sale items including motorcycles baby goods hogs farm equipment and furniture. Phrases are garbled with names and phone fragments, offering items from hogs to silos to terriers and household goods. The ad ends with a cryptic prompt FIND WHISKY HIDDEN IN A CTRER.
A mix of sale notices and classified items appears, including bar gear and whisky still report, barnyard supplies, furniture, tools, and household goods. Also listed are poultry stock, firearms, storage services, business opportunities, and real estate loan notices.
Original notice from Waters on Blackhawk County Minnesota Land Company v Jordan and Gail Jordan in Municipal Court. Defendants Jordan and Gail Jordan receive process. case details incomplete due to damaged text.
Nervousness over the steel strike clouded the markets as corn opened irregularly with a small selling pressure and mixed futures. After an initial dip to about 1.00 to 1.12, prices edged up then slipped again, while oats and provisions showed modest gains and late selling of lard by packers weighed on the market.
The page lists grain prices including corn oats and rye with bids from Chicago and Minneapolis markets, then shifts to a legal notice about a landlord's claim for rent on a Waterloo property and an Iowa corporation filing, detailing business scope and authorized stock. It also reports stock market and commodity updates with futures prices and local livestock receipts from East St. Louis.
Omaha ad copy proclaims Emma D. a champion layer owned by Ceril Shapljbard near Berea. The note claims 336 eggs in 665 days, with eggs selling at 3 each, and the bird touted as highly productive and country-serving.
Sioux City and St. Joseph cattle and hog markets show receipts and price ranges with veal calves and sheep listed. operations reflect mixed trends. Regional rail connections outline Burlington and St Louis routes with Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, and Chicago links and schedule notes for passenger and freight service.
Chicago market report shows Hog receipts 144000 and prices near yesterday's averages with butchers and packers mixed for various grades. Cattle receipts around 12000 weaker with common and light weights trading lower while vealers and feeders show limited activity. sheep receipts 5000 and prices mostly lower across the board.
Receipts show hogs and sheep activity with varying weights and prices. Hogs traded at multiple levels from light to heavy, with prices ranging around 16.50 to 17.25, and cattle and calves listed with mixed bids. Sheep receipts totaled about 17,000 with lambs at 12.75 to 14.75 and yearlings around 9.0 to 10.7 per hundred.
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